The following post is from September of 2019. In our sports teams alone we have a god for every city. The true God may say to us.....Where is this Trump that you have made a god.....let him save you.....or your judges....or your princes....let them save you?
It just does not appear to me that there is a Thanksgiving in America anymore. Surely the day had been sinking into oblivion for decades but it seems as if it has finally vanished as a full-rigged 18th century frigate might vanish in the ocean mist.
Today it appears to be just family gatherings where God is mentioned at best in a thirty second Hallmark prayer...where no one thinks about the eternal souls of the loved ones around the dinner table....but only if they enjoyed the feast. Christians today seem only to be set apart as Republicans....Second Amendment advocates....pro-life....not necessarily pro-'eternal' life people.Pastors with an unction for saving souls....not just building up their numbers to appear successful.....but more like loading weeping third class passengers into life boats as the damaged and sinking luxurious liner parties on....these pastors are old and dying off quickly. Evangelicalism has become the Laodicean church....neither hot or cold....thinking itself in need of nothing....peculiar only in that Donald Trump has somehow become its hero.
"For my people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns,
That can hold no water."
These are words from near the beginning of the book of Jeremiah. Israel....the northern tribes....had long since fallen...and been taken captive....just like half of our nation had been taken captive by communist and suicidal ideologies....and now it's our turn....selfish and arrogant and spiteful. We thought we had a more practical way....might and power....rather than relying on the spirit of the LORD of hosts.
"Have you not done this to yourself,
By your forsaking the Lord your God,
When He led you in the way?"
Yet we still picture ourselves as some kind of remnant....why we're the remnant of the pilgrims don't you know...."A shining city on a hill..."....and the intellectual heirs of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln!" No we're not....we don't bear any resemblance to the pilgrims and Puritans....and we're the heirs of Hamilton and Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt at best.
"And my inheritance you made an abomination.
The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?'
And those who handle the law did not know Me,
And the prophets prophesied by Baal
And walked after things that did not profit."
God is not angry with us....maybe them....but not us!
"How can you say, 'I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baals'?"
Yet we utterly refuse to bow down.....to trust only in Him....or to honor the Word of God. If things get rough....we'll have some national prayer day or something....'God bless America!"
"But in the time of their trouble they will say,
'Arise and save us.'
But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself."
O God....what have we possibly done that you could be angry with? We can say Merry Christmas again!
"Yet you said, 'I am innocent;
Surely His anger is turned away from me.'
Behold, I will enter into judgment with you
Because you say, 'I have not sinned'."
"For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust,
And you shall not prosper with them."
Folks.....read these Old Testament prophets....read them all....and see for yourself the striking similarities of Israel and Judah to America today.
